Tom Hiddleston Interview about Thor: The Dark World
(and other intriguing details…)

On my trip to LA for the Thor: The Dark World Red Carpet Premiere I was given the awesome opportunity to do a Tom Hiddleston interview! If I had to pick two words to describe him they would be GENUINE and FUNNY! He has a great sense of humor and had us laughing the whole time. Keep reading – you don’t want to miss the intriguing details he shared with us…

We all sat (well more like anxiously bouncing in our chairs lol) in the interview room waiting for Tom to come in. When we heard “He’s coming” – we all ran to start our recorders, get our phones and computers ready and ask and answer questions through social media about the interview.

He came in, took a seat, and after complimenting all of us on how beautiful we looked (swoon) he asked us if we had seen the film. The premiere was after the interview so we hadn’t seen it yet. He replied by saying:

TOM HIDDLESTON : Okay, great. Okay, well I play the bad guy, you probably know that, I feel like I should be sitting here with a white cat and stroking it for my next question.

(Totally reminded me of this James Bond movie – this is too funny and I love his sense of humor!)

QUESTION: How did you get in character to play a bad guy, and do you really like playing those kind of roles?

TOM HIDDLESTON : Second question first. I love playing, um, all kinds of roles, and I hope it doesn’t sound too pretentious but I always feel like human nature is like a piano and there are 88 keys and there are some white keys and some black keys and each character is a different chord on the piano. And I love, basically I hope that in the course of my life I will have played all 88 keys in lots of different ways. So I’ll have played heroes, and villains,and princes and kings and warriors and beggars and thieves and lovers and fathers and wizards and all of those things. So that’s it, for me that’s why I’m an actor, is I love studying people. Loki’s just a particular kind, actually I think he’s a minor chord with a couple of black notes in there. I loved playing him.
I suppose the first question, my answer to it is he’s the God of Mischief. Thor is the God of Thunder and Loki is the God of Mischief and his mischief is the thing that I love playing so much. His playfulness, his sense of fun, and the challenge of course is to make him real, and vulnerable and complex.

(I personally think he does a wonderful villain, but have also seen him in other roles and he did amazing in those as well – sooo I am so happy with his answer because I want to see a LOT more him 😉 .)

QUESTION: How has Loki changed since we last saw him, has he reconciled with his dad, or…?

TOM HIDDLESTON : Certainly not with his dad. I think Loki’s very angry with his father still. Basically you find him in the wake of what happened in the Avengers. He’s back and he’s in prison. (Tom laughs and goes on) Yes, he should be wearing an Asgardian version of a kind of boiler suit.
He’s basically been written out of history, condemned to be forgotten, unseen and unheard and haunted by his demons for eternity. I think he’s keeping himself sharp by reading a lot and, keeping his mind exercised. But he’s not great at the long game, Loki, but he’s very good at improvising. So he’ll always manipulate every situation to his own advantage.
How has he changed? I think he’s almost freer in one sense, spiritually. He’s more mischevious, he’s more fun, he’s more provocative. But he’s also more damaged. I think there’s a kind of spiritual vulnerability which is really acute. And I think he hits rock bottom in this film, he’s more alone, he’s more lonely, more sad, angrier…yeah you’ll see, I’m, sorry I don’t want to reveal too much.

QUESTION: Playing off of that, in one of the trailers you say, “…we can work together but begrudingly so…”

TOM HIDDLESTON : Yeah. Is there a bit of an “agree to disagree” between the two? I mean obviously there’s tension. There is. And, the fascinating thing is the reason they need to get together is one that you’ll see very clearly. And it’s despite their antagonism, which is consistent with Avengers. In fact is even more sort of pushed to polar opposites, they are unified by a common bond which is why they need to fight back.
I don’t want to reveal too much but there is a big reason. What’s interesting and what’s wonderful about this particular film is I think the need to come together and work as a team actually gave Chris Hemsworth and myself amazing opportunities to explore that particular tension between them, that they were two brothers who were brought up as equals and best friends. And they loved each other and they fought and they played and they competed and they were rivals, but ultimately they were best friends. And then the circumstances of their adult lives have pushed them to absolute extremes.
The difference is that where in the first film and in Avengers, Thor is consistently appealing to Loki to say, “Come back,” you know, “We still love you, come back into the family” and Loki is rejecting that olive branch. In this film Thor makes no bones about there’s no olive branch, it’s like, “I need you, and if you betray me I will kill you.”

(He is so funny – you just have to picture him with his hands moving and being very animated, very funny and laughing a lot. Then you will get a better picture of how he was during this interview!)

QUESTION: If someone visits your home and looked inside the refrigerator, what would they find?

TOM HIDDLESTON : (Tom laughs before answering) Ah hah, well I’ve been on the road for a bit so I was very conscientious and emptied the fridge of all perishable food as my mum taught me before I went away didn’t want to come home to like moldy bread and, you know…

QUESTION: So there’s nothing growing in there.

TOM HIDDLESTON : I hope not, yeah. I think there’s probably some bottles of fizzy water (Tom holds up his fizzy water that he is drinking and laughs) and maybe some old cheese in the back, but cheese is alright I think. But normally it’s full of green vegetables, and butter, and a few eggs. (Tom laughs again) You know just sort of fridgey stuff, really.

(I think was one of my favorite parts of the interview. A great and unique answer and I love it! Plus we get to learn something about him we didn’t before!)

QUESTION :A lot of people are wondering if there is gonna be a Loki spin off movie?

TOM HIDDLESTON : Well, (Tom smiles) at this point in time officially I know nothing.

QUESTION : Go unofficial. We won’t tell.

TOM HIDDLESTON : (Tom laughs) You won’t tell? Okay. Sea of computers. Sea of Dictaphones recording my every word. Honestly the people have asked me about it and the idea that anyone, whether it’s one man and his dog, wants to see Loki in a solo movie is such a huge complement. I hear it’s more than one man and his dog but, you know, we’ll have to see. I honestly don’t know what the future of Loki is at this point but it has been a roller coaster and it’s been more than I have ever expected.
So I feel that there’s no point in me having expectations anymore because whatever happens is gonna surpass them so I’ll just ride it out I think, just buckle up and ride it out.

(Tom ends the interview by doing a Sean Connery and Christopher Walken impressions for us. He was amazing!)

After the interview we were able to take a group photo with him. There were 25 of us there on this amazing trip! I am so grateful that I got to be a part of it! After the interview we headed out to the Thor: The Dark World red carpet premiere where we got to see Tom, Chris, Anthony, and the rest of the amazing people involved with the movie!

Thor: The Dark World is in theaters RIGHT NOW! So go see it. It is an amazing movie full of action and emotion. You will not be disappointed.

Marvel’s “Thor: The Dark World” continues the big-screen adventures of Thor, the Mighty Avenger, as he battles to save Earth and all the Nine Realms from a shadowy enemy that predates the universe itself. In the aftermath of Marvel’s “Thor” and “Marvel’s The Avengers,” Thor fights to restore order across the cosmos…but an ancient race led by the vengeful Malekith returns to plunge the universe back into darkness. To defeat an enemy that even Odin and Asgard cannot withstand, Thor sets upon his most dangerous and personal journey yet, forced into an alliance with the treacherous Loki to save not only his people and those he loves…but our universe itself.

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